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The independence of the commodity (2)

Page 37 of internationale situationniste no. 10 has exerted a strange fascination for me since I first saw it. The striking way it combines the reproduction of a contemporary ad, appended with Situationist critical commentary, completes this détournement. Unfortunately, the novel … Continue reading

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λόγος επανάσταση KING COMMUNISM

king communism – poster 15 “λόγος” “επανάσταση” “KING COMMUNISM” English version

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REASON REVOLUTION KING COMMUNISM

king communism – poster 14 “REASON” “REVOLUTION” “KING COMMUNISM” — UPDATED 15:51, 7 July 2015

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CAPITALISM STINKS EVERYWHERE KING COMMUNISM

king communism – poster 13 CAPITALISM STINKS EVERYWHERE [KING COMMUNISM] — This one goes out to all the peoples in all the corners.

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NOGREECENO

king communism – poster 12 cunning reason at work…

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The New Adventures of the Dialectic – STARTING TODAY!

king communism – poster 11 “THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE DIALECTIC” “Next week: The World Turned Upside Down” — Coming soon, the postcard… — In the same month that issue 8 of internationale situationniste was published the Situationist International issued a postcard … Continue reading

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A minor détournement – and King Communism!

king communism – poster 10 “Be unreasonable, demand the possible.” The graffiti from Paris, May 1968, the words “Soyons réalistes, exigeons l’impossible” are also, apparently, the words of Che Guevara, guerrilla and sometime state socialist bureaucrat from Bolivia, Cuba and Argentina. The slogan … Continue reading

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The real movement of history (King Communism 9)

king communism – poster 9 “The real movement of history” — “Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the realmovement … Continue reading

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King Communism (8)

king communism – poster 8 “Poets, one more effort if you want to become nihilists! Nihilists, one more effort if you want to become revolutionists!”

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King Communism (7)

king communism – poster 7 “For a poetry necessarily without  poems.” — “Outside the revolutionary periods when the masses become poets in action, small circles of poetic adventure could be considered the only places where the totality of revolution subsists, … Continue reading

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